America Quote by Derek Walcott

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black…

— George Pelecanos

Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't…

— Toni Morrison

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll…

— Lena Waithe

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in…

— Harold Nicholas

Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in…

— Katori Hall

I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what…

— Colson Whitehead

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't…

— Chris Rock

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published.…

— Walter Mosley

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

— Kiese Laymon